List of Shadow Star characters
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a profile of characters from Shadow Star (Narutaru) and events in which they are involved.
Contents |
[edit] Main characters
[edit] Shiina Tamai
Shiina Tamai (玉依 秕[1] / 玉依 シイナ Tamai Shiina): The protagonist of Shadow Star. She acts very mature for her age, and though she does not get the best grades, she is talented at cooking and athletics. She always tries her hardest to become stronger, often facing newer and more difficult challenges. While outwardly cheerful and optimistic about everything, on the inside the protagonist's hurt stems back as far as her name; in her dream in the first episode she says, "Are you calling me? That name, Shiina... I don't like it. So next time you want to call me, do me a favor and don't use that name." Using heart-thumping music of the same three piano keys to further the idea of death, Shiina asks, "Am I going to be gone from this world?" She fears losing those closest to her, but must endure.
After the anime ends, she obtains a scholarship to Banda Academy and moves in with Takeo and Norio after her father's plane was attacked by dragons a second time. In an attempt to save Takeo and herself from a United States military attack on a nearby escaped dragon, a missile cuts Shiina's body in half. The following nuclear explosion completely destroys her body. Soon after, she is reborn off the shore of her grandparents' island and it is revealed that her (and Mamiko Kuri's) dragons are, in fact, the whole world. The child of Shiina and Takeo becomes the new Eve when Mamiko destroys and recreates the planet.
Shiina and her friends usually write her given name with katakana (sometimes as シイナ and sometimes as シーナ); Shiina's mother, Misono, prefers the kanji rendering of her given name, which means "a lifeless shell" or "an empty husk." Shiina's given name is romanized as Shiina in English-language versions and the Japanese graphic novels, while Kodanclub romanizes her given name as Shina [2].
Her seiyuu is Asami Sanada.
[edit] Hoshimaru
Hoshimaru (ホシ丸): Shiina's companion. He does what Shiina unconsciously wants to do or have happen. This means that in reality she does not wish to casually speak with him, and that everything he does is actually Shiina's will - whether for good or for bad.
In the anime it is not stated, but later in the manga it becomes known that Hoshimaru is Takeo Tsurumaru's dragon, not Shiina's, which explains why she could not link with the creature. When Takeo dies, Hoshimaru attempts to turn his bearer into a virgin princess, but somehow fails.
His seiyuu is Satsuki Yukino.
[edit] Akira Sakura
Akira Sakura (佐倉 明 Sakura Akira): A ninth grade student who always seems out-of-place, Akira likes to hide in the shadows where she can feel protected from the outside world, nervous of others around her and afraid to trust nearly anyone. Living above her family's restaurant, her parents wish her to try harder in school and not skip day after day. When she does go to school, due to the fact that she is linked with a dragon she named Ensof (エンソフ), she often relives visions of falling from the sky - her constant passing out and vomiting in the middle of class makes her a serious outcast to the other students. Instead of trying to free herself of her timidity, she creates further barriers, with the exception of befriending Shiina.
During her and Shiina's battle with Komori, he tells Akira that she has beautiful hair, and as soon as the battle is over she locks herself in her room and cuts off her long hair in fear. As a young child, Akira was very friendly and outgoing, but quickly transformed into a hopelessly shy and insecure person after being sexually abused by her father. She keeps all of her pain inside, and tries at first to free herself of that pain by slitting her wrists and later on pointing a gun to her head, but ends up unleashing her rage on her abusive father by killing him with a dagger that Komori gave her. She spends the rest of the manga in a juvenile detention center.
In Volume 12, when injured by a dragon battle and sent to a local hospital, her suffering finally ends when she falls out of a window onto the street below. It is not clear whether she jumped out of the window herself or whether someone pushed her.
Her seiyuu is Mamiko Noto.
[edit] Shunji Tamai
Shunji Tamai (玉依 俊二 Tamai Shunji): Shiina's father and a pilot for a small aviation company. He and his wife separated years ago, and he lives with Shiina. Once a sensational ace pilot for the National Defense Force, his abilities have diminished since an undisclosed incident involving a dragon. He loves his daughter dearly and wants always to protect her, even though she is often the one who ends up protecting him. In Volume 12 of the manga, Shunji Tamai dies after Bungo's dragon fires its gun at his plane's cockpit while he is trying to eject after he caused Bungo's dragon to be sucked into his plane's engine.
His seiyuu is Nobuo Tobita.
[edit] Virgin Princess
Virgin Princess (乙姫 Otohime): Appearing on a large dragon, the virgin princess is equivalent to a goddess of dragons. She rarely makes appearances, thus seeing her even once in a lifetime is a rare and treasured event. The virgin princess is a replica of its owner's body whose soul has been absorbed by his or her baby dragon, thus becoming an adult dragon. Jyun explains to Shiina that the princesses get their name because they are "joined together" only with their dragons. There is more than one virgin princess, and they may be male or nonhuman.
In the manga, the one who most often makes an appearance and saves Shiina many times over is revealed to be Misho Tamai (玉依 美笙 Tamai Mishō), Shiina's deceased sister. In the manga, Shunji (Shiina's father) discovers a different virgin princess while on a mission in Russia.
[edit] Tomonori Komori
Tomonori Komori (小森 朋典 Komori Tomonori): While to the outside world Komori appears to be a polite and popular boy who wants to become a doctor, in reality he wants to change the world by sacrificing the educated in a similar manner to the Khmer Rouge's revolution in Cambodia. He tells Akira that he is going to build an everlasting empire, and that he will be king and she will be his queen. He dies at the hands of Hoshimaru after introducing immense fear into Akira and Shiina's hearts. His friends and living family do not know of his death, with Shiina and Akira as the only ones who do; they believe he has simply gone missing. His disabled mother, unable to live on her own, dies soon after Komori's death.
In the manga, Komori's dragon, Push Dagger, begins absorbing his body in attempt to become a virgin princess, but the two are discovered by a team of medical researchers and the half-boy-half-dragon corpse was brought to their underground laboratory and hooked up to machines in attempt to stop the absorption. It is unknown whether or not they were successful, though it is obvious that they were at least able to slow down the process.
In English-language Central Park Media anime, his name is Akinori Komori.[1]
His seiyuu is Akira Ishida.
[edit] Satomi Ozawa
Satomi Ozawa (小沢 さとみ Ozawa Satomi): A haughty, stubborn girl who goes to an exclusive all-girls' school called Banda Academy. Flower-shaped Amapora (アマポーラ Amapōra) is her dragonet companion, and she befriends Shiina, who does not know of her evil intentions. She wishes to kill people, but lacks the strength until she finally unleashes her power on civilians, creating a city of corpses. She fulfills a favor for Sudo by kidnapping Akira, who is believed to have a dragon. She used to have a romantic relationship with Bungo, but for some reason her priorities moved to the dragons. Satomi holds a particularly strong grudge against Shiina for both killing Komori and attempting to stop her malicious plans, and often discusses with Bungo her desire to kill Shiina. Satomi's fate at the end of the series is never determined. Amapora and Bungo's dragon are shown in a merged state after Mamiko destroys and recreates the world.
Her seiyuu is Kaori Tomita.
[edit] Bungo Takano
Bungo Takano (高野 文吾 Takano Bungo): A high school student and one of the friends of Komori. He is usually very cheerful and carefree, though serious and supportive of his teammates in battle. He has a great fondness for guns and cannons, and handilly supplies them when his human allies are most in need. His dragon, whose named has several variants including Hainuwere and Einvelle, resembles an angel with talons and attacks Shiina's father while flying a jet plane.
Though a member of his high school's track team, he often skips practice to spend time with Satomi, whom he still has strong feelings for despite an apparent past break-up. He is often puzzled by Sudo's plans, though they work together. During his second attack on Shiina's father, his dragon gets sucked into Shunji Tamai's jet turbine and crushed. He is shown unconscious or dead soon after enduring excruciating pain. Amapora and Bungo's dragon are shown in a merged state after Mamiko destroyed and recreated the world. In the English-language manga, Kazuyuki Takano is his name.
His seiyuu is Hisayoshi Suganuma.
[edit] Naozumi Sudo
Naozumi Sudo (須藤 直角 Sudō Naozumi): One of Komori's friends, he is very calm, yet extreme enough to commit grand theft auto and murder. Sudo himself claims that he has surpassed a human level of emotional discomfort and desire. He sees himself as someone who protects Earth, even though he sends Satomi Ozawa to kidnap Akira to discover whether she has a dragon. He believes he can change the world, releasing it of its bonds to tradition, custom, and common sense by means of a society based on one's abilities. He claims that only those who have an impact on the world truly deserve to live, and that the human race is wasting the limited amount of resources available to them.
Eventually, he, Satomi, and Bungo begin their plan to destroy the world by means of a nuclear winter, but he starves himself to death whilst endlessly plotting how to select the master race of this new world he would have created.
His seiyuu is Hideki Taizaka.
[edit] Hiroko Kaizuka
Hiroko Kaizuka (貝塚 ひろ子 Kaizuka Hiroko (manga), 貝塚 ひろこ Kaizuka Hiroko [3] (anime)): Hiroko, nicknamed "Hiro" (ひろちゃん Hiro-chan) is an extremely intelligent girl, dragon bearer, and Shiina's friend. A group of bullies, consisting of Aki Honda, Miyoko Shito, Hiroka Takamura, and Mihaya Ozaki, torture her when she does not get low scores on exams; the book reveals an occasion where bullies force Hiroko to ingest worms from a beaker and a separate occasion where the same bullies shove a test tube up Hiroko's vagina. In addition, Hiroko's parents scold her for not receiving better marks, unaware that their daughter's poor grades are the price to pay for the bullies to leave her alone. Only finding solace from Shiina, she cannot approach Shiina about the bullying, but must live with it - until the day she snaps.
After experiencing the unfairness in Japanese society, and separated from Shiina from her father's others, Hiroko wishes that everything would disappear. This activates her shadow dragon, Oni, who proceeds to brutally kill Aki (as well as raping her before she dies), her brother/lover Yasuhito, Hiroka, Mihaya, and Hiroko's parents, also severely injuring Miyoko. Hoshimaru breaks Hiroko's neck when she threatens to kill Shiina's father with Oni, much to Shiina's horror.
Her seiyuu is Sakura Nogawa.
[edit] Mamiko Kuri
Mamiko Kuri (涅 見子 Kuri Mamiko): Mamiko is a mysterious girl with cold eyes who Sudo took under his wing when he found out she had a shadow dragon, though it is never clear how he discovered her. She does not like to wear clothing, only using a flimsy dress and no underwear when she's outside her home. and often considers everyone around her inferior.
Sudo eventually enrolls her at Banda Academy with Shiina and Satomi. She explains to Shiina late in the story that they possess the same shadow dragon; it is the earth itself, and they must make the choice of what kind of world there will be. It is also noted that she has no family, and seems to have been created by the earth to serve as Shiina's dark side.
With all of Shiina's close friends and family dead and Mamiko's tremendous power, in Volume 12 of the manga Mamiko goes berserk, destroying everyone and everything in the world except Shiina and herself. They begin the world over again. Several gang members, who kill Norio in Volume 10 and Tsurumaru in Volume 12, rape and impregnate Mamiko in volume 11. Mamiko kills the gang members before destroying the rest of the world, and her son becomes the new Adam when the world is reborn.
Her seiyuu is Satsuki Yukino.
[edit] Takeo Tsurumaru
Takeo Tsurumaru (鶴丸 丈夫 Tsurumaru Takeo): One of the passengers who disappeared from Shiina's plane flight, whom she confuses with the writer of a threatening note. He helps Shiina and Akira many times, although he does not always understand where his responsibilities should stand. He is quite lecherous, having five illegitimate children and three girls pregnant during the course of the series. Eventually, he impregnates Shiina too, but right before that she teaches him that there is a difference between love and procreation.
In volume 10 Takeo gets caught in a nuclear explosion while trying to escape the hellfire of U.S. soldiers attacking an escaped dragon, and later shows obvious side effects of radiation poisoning, including severe scars and complete hair loss. In volume 11 Takeo kills some of the city thugs - mostly the same ones who kidnap and murder Norio in Volume 10 and rape Mamiko in Volume 11 - including the thug who tortured, raped and killed Norio.
In Volume 12 of the manga, the remaining city thugs shoot him to death in his chest at his apartment. For unexplained reasons Hoshimaru (his dragonchild, not Shiina's as many thought) cannot manage to transform him into a virgin princess. Takeo's death is the last straw that triggers Mamiko's destruction and rebuilding of the human world.
His seiyuu is Eiji Miyashita.
[edit] Norio Koga
Norio Koga (古賀 のり夫 Koga Norio): The other missing passenger from the plane flight, as well as Takeo's roommate and friend. Norio has long hair, earrings, large eyes, and other feminine features so many characters throughout the series mistake him for a woman. He possesses a high-level shadow dragon named Vagina Dentata that often follows Takeo, and crafts new shadow dragons as a sort of hobby. Norio is very aloof and rude around other people, and it is touched on a few times that he is angry at the human race. But he actually has fierce loyalty for Takeo, and his deepest, darkest wish is to have his child.
Norio experiences a turbulent death: a gang of street punks and city thugs approaches his and Takeo's house. Norio comes outside when he hears a noise, and collapses after a blow to the stomach. The thugs drag Norio into the house and ask for Takeo's whereabouts. When Norio stated that he is not there, a thug slices Norio's left ear with a sword, causing an earring to fall to the floor. Norio tries to run away, but a sword slices his achilles tendon and Norio falls to the ground. One of the thugs, after punching a fellow thug, decides that he wishes to take advantage of Norio. After Norio is stripped and placed on a bed and a video camera is turned on, the thug rapes and stabs Norio's lower parts before giving him a dose of lethal injection in the neck. The other thugs vomit outside during the torture. Norio dies, as does his dragon, from which a fetus develops - an expression of his love for Takeo and secret dream. Takeo later finds Norio's severed head attached to the "body" of Norio's doll, and later he kills the thugs who gave his friend such an horrid end.
His seiyuu is Kouki Akaishi.
[edit] Minor characters
[edit] Manga and anime minor characters
[edit] Satoru
Satoru is a friend of Shiina who lives in her grandparents' island. He is one year younger than Shiina, and being from a small island, is often annoyed by Shiina's "city" mannerisms.
[edit] Jyun Ezumi
Jyun Ezumi (江角ジュン Ezumi Jun): A calm, collected girl a little older than Shiina. The dragon Nendo, which she travels with, looks like a broomstick, so when Shiina first meets her she is mistaken for a witch. She appears briefly and apparently died in a car crash two years before she meets Shiina. Nendo, who turns out to belong to Jyun's friend Kyoji Fukuyama (福山京児 Fukuyama Kyōji), has an ability that allowed Kyoji to take her physical form when his own body died in an accident. Jyun's fake body and Kyoji's soul merge with the dragon, causing them to evolve into a full dragon and virgin princess.
Her seiyuu is Satsuki Yukino.
[edit] Tatsumi Miyako
Tatsumi Miyako (宮子 巽 Miyako Tatsumi): Tatsumi is a government agent responsible for investigating the shadow dragon case. He is one of the first to realize Shiina's significance in the dragon events, and eventually teams with Sudo's team to try and hunt down the remaining dragon bearers. He sometimes acts very childish and feels like everything he does is right. He is also fiercely nationalistic, and often voices his opinions on Japan being the greatest and most powerful nation in the world. At the end of the series he is stabbed in the chest by a man, who, along with a mysterious woman, seems to want revenge for a wrong Miyako did to them in the past.
[edit] Misono Tamai
Misono Tamai (玉依 美笙園 Tamai Misono): Shiina's mother and Shunji's wife. Misono often chides Shiina for the young girl's poor grades, and deep down believes that Shiina is responsible for the death of her first daughter Misho, to the point of trying to strangle Shiina once. Always calm and cold, she works with the government and Miyako on the shadow dragon case. In volume 12, some men fatally shoot Misono while she is in her car.
Her seiyuu is Chizuru Fuyuki.
[edit] Aki Sato
Aki Sato (佐藤 明希 Satō Aki): Sato is another government agent and Tatsumi's secretary. Due to her beauty, many men at the office try to catch her attention, not knowing that she has a fiancée who is rather nervous and bumbling. Without her lover nearby, she is a cold and heartless manipulator who cares for nothing but her own power. At the end of the series, Sato stays alive until the world is reborn.
[edit] Aki Honda
Aki Honda (本田亜希 Honda Aki): The cruelest of the girls that bully Hiroko, and thus the group's unofficial leader. Yasuhito, who is her older brother in the Japanese manga and anime and boyfriend in the English manga, teaches her various methods to torture Hiroko. Aki is responsible for forcing Hiro to drink juice with worms in it, and take a test tube in her vagina.
After the second incident, Aki, dressed only in a lingerie top in the manga (panties are added in the English and German versions) and a nightgown in the anime, and her brother/lover Yasuhito, sit in their house when Oni breaks through the wall. Hiroko's dragon instantly kills Yasuhito by smashing his head into a wall. After he dies, Oni forces Aki to ingest worms and then kills her. In the original Japanese manga, Oni shoves a clawed finger up Aki's vagina. The finger courses through Aki's organs and reappears through Aki's stomach. The finger then tears downward through Aki's torso; the final image of Aki shows her body cut in half. The English manga removes many of the pages in the scene and arranges the scene so that one instance of the dragon slicing through Aki's stomach is seen.
In the anime version, the torture of Aki after the worms is not clearly seen by the viewer. In all versions of Shadow Star, Aki is given the fatal hit at the hands of Oni.
Her seiyuu is Kahoru Sasajima.
[edit] Miyoko Shito
Miyoko Shito (市東美代子 Shitō Miyoko): A friend of Shiina, she remains always nervous when she helps bully Hiroko because she fears Shiina's potential reaction. Her lack of confidence in her own strength undoubtedly leads to her involvement in the group that bullies Hiroko. The night that the group rapes Hiro with a test tube, Miyoko is late to join them and gets beaten up by the rest of the bullies for her incompetence.
After the deaths of Aki and Mihaya, Miyoko was the first one to realize that Hiroko's bullies were the ones being targeted, and tells the teacher about the bullying and her suspicions. Hiroko's dragon Oni appears at Shiina's school and rips Miyoko's left leg off of her body; Shiina prevents the dragon from killing Miyoko, and Miyoko is taken to the hospital, where she survives (until the end of the world) but must live the rest of her life in a wheelchair.
Her seiyuu is Yuuya Yoshikawa.
[edit] Hiroka Takamura
Hiroka Takamura (高村宏華 Takamura Hiroka): One of the girls who bullies Hiroko. Hiroka joined their group out of jealousy for Hiroko's perfect test grades. She tries to keep the group's actions a secret at all costs, and protests when Miyoko tells the teacher about what the group had been doing. When Hiroko's dragon Oni appears at Shiina's school, it drops Hiroka out of a window.
Her seiyuu is Megumi Kobayashi.
[edit] Mihaya Ozaki
Mihaya Ozaki (尾崎三早 Ozaki Mihaya): A classmate of Shiina's, and a member of the group that bullies Hiroko. She bullies Hiro along with other girls out of jealousy. Mihaya becomes the first victim of Hiroko's dragon Oni; when she is walking home alone at night after the test tube incident, Mihaya is killed by Oni in a dark alleyway.
Her seiyuu is Megumi Kojima.
[edit] Takaya Mizushima
Takaya Mizushima (水嶋貴也 Mizushima Takaya): He is a classmate and friend of Hiroko and Shiina. He has a crush on Shiina and has two older sisters who constantly tease him about it. He is the first one to realize Hiroko's strange behavior, but does not know that it is due to the bullying. After coming across Aki Honda and her group of bullies raping Hiroko with a test tube, he yells at the bullies to stop and drives them away. Then Mizushima travels to Hiroko's house and tells her that he will protect her from her troubles; Hiro tells him that it is "too late," but he is not killed by Hiroko's dragon due to his kindness.
Later attending a coeducational junior high school, he appears sporadically throughout the rest of the series.
His seiyuu is Hikaru Tokita.
[edit] Shoko Fukuyama
Shoko Fukuyama (福山笙子 Fukuyama Shōko): A friend of Jyun Ezumi, and cousin and friend of Kyoji Fukuyama. Shoko is emotional and passionate, and loves Kyoji in a deep romantic way even though he is a family member. She is heartbroken when Kyoji gets in an accident and has to be hooked up to life support machines in a hospital. She and Jyun were writing letters to each other after Jyun moved away from Tokyo, but when Jyun appears at Kyoji's hospital and tells Shoko off for being selfish and weak, Shoko is hurt even more.
Shoko befriends Shiina and pours out her troubles to her at the hospital. When Kyoji dies, the following day Shoko and Shiina see his dragon and virgin princess in the sky. Shoko begins to cry and screams to him that she can be strong and go on loving him. After that, Jyun, Kyoji, and Shoko are never seen again.
Her seiyuu is Naoko Suzuki.
[edit] Ishida
Ishida (石田): Ishida is a ninth grader and classmate of Akira. He has had an attraction towards Akira for a few years, and is very defensive of her. In Japanese volume 6 (English 7), Ishida helps carry Akira into the infirmary after she collapses in physical education class. Akira, who had been teased that day and desperately wanted someone to confirm her worth, briefly falls in love with Ishida in the nurse's office. She pulls him onto one of the beds, takes off her bloomers and underpants, and tries to get him to have sex with her, but he nervously declines and leaves the room. He then sits alone and berates himself for his weakness, as Akira loudly masturbates in the infirmary.
His seiyuu is Yuuki Tai.
[edit] Suzuki
Suzuki (鈴木) is Shunji's assistant and a pilot for Motoki. He is a kind, middle-aged man who looks after Shiina.
His seiyuu is Tooru Sakura.
[edit] Manga-only minor characters
[edit] Jen Franklin
Jen Franklin (ジェーン・フランクリン Jēn Furankurin): Jen is an American woman and the stubborn and strong mother of a boy with cancer, Robert (ロバート Robāto), who owns a dragon, Tarask (タラスク Tarasuku), that escaped its prison in the United States. It flies to Japan and rampages through the streets of Tokyo in volume 10. Jen meets Shiina, and though they are suspicious of each other at first, they eventually join forces in an effort to stop Robert's dragon.
![[1]](http://www.centralparkmedia.com/shadowstar/gallery/gall01.jpg){kind=link}